Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-31
HEATED CONTROVERSY.
Over the Below Zero Weather Of Min
nesOta. Home of the North Wand.
Chicago Herald.

An honest Chicogan, who was caught
in the cold embrace of Minnesota bliz>
zard, dictated with his dying and frosty
breath this lamentation:
Ed.
Minnesota
Colder'n blazes,
On the plains of Minnesota.
| Here is where the chilly north wind
/ From the land Of Manitoba
Comes and blows right through your whiskers,
| And shins down your spinal column,
| While your nose gets white and brittle
As you wander down the roadway,
| And your ears stand out like winglets
| As you meet the chilling zephyrs,
| In the state of Minnesota.
Minnesota
| Daru my liver,
| Let me shake your Icy fetters
And your breeze from Manitoba,
Here they shuck the furry va.mints
| And they skin the hairy bison,
| For the hides will make them clothing
| To keep out the chilling weather.
| In st. Paul they build palace,
| Build it solely ont Of water;
| Stand the water right up endwise.
Stand it there until il freezes,
Feeezes harder than blue blaZes
| BY the breath of Manitoba
| In that freezing Minnesota.
Minnesota
| Gosh all fried cakes,
Please take in your wiEtry weather
Till skip from out your border
To land not made Of ice cakes,
To the land of the Chicago,
Where the breeze is summer laden,
| And the brizh and sparkling river
Watts aroma on its bosom.
| In its windings thro' the valleys
Meath the eyersverdant hillsides,
Far from frigid Minnesota.
-[Coldfellow.
The confidence of escape thus fully ex
pressed was never realized. He persisted
and his mortal remains are preserved in
| the stiff embrace of snow bank, down
which the thoughtess natives, clothed
like Attic bears, now glide upon the rude
device, called, in the outlandish iargon
of the frontier, the toboggan. He will
be dug cut next July when the spring
| thaw sets in. Meantime, the heartless
Esouimaux. who braved the rigor of the
ST. Paul region, have responded to the
dying plant of the frozen Chicagean in
! this wise:
n. f. D-Darn his pictur
What knows he of Minnesota
| He who comes here in mid-winfef
| Clothed in airy linen dCster;
| Comes TO fud in bleak December
| All the heat of sultry summer,
| He 3 fool is. sure as tophet
He, the ice king. Borealis,
| Would not own for bali minute,
| Own one HON he could bet on
/ When he gives us breezy weather.
His lines are full of bssest SANDER;
| Coward he, and rank impostor.
| He defames d, ar Minnesota.
| He who shrinks from gentle zephyr.
| That our boys and girls delight in.
| They with skate and with toboggsn.
| Or with snow shoe, long and slender,
Gladly meet the icy north wind,
| Clad in rsiment warm and proper;
| Meet him proudly, with rejoicing;
Meet with hurrah and with laughter.
| Not u boy or maid among them
| But who loves old Boreas blHster.
| Warm their hearts and quick their pulses,
| When the storm king round them RACES.
| But n. E, D., darn his pictur,
| With his cold blood, blinking, shrinking;
| Scared to death al air 80 breezy
| Scared at frost CLINT OF winter
Scared At fun and giddy ffolc,
| That our young folks all delight in.
Not for him is our rejoicing;
Not for him our winter pleasure,
| { will keep our swift toboggans'
Keep our skates, and keep our snow-shOes
We will ill the air with laughter,
While we build the fair ice palace
| Build OF water frozen endwise."
| For such as he we keep our blizzard,
| Keep to scare 'em all back homeward.
| Let him return to the Chicago,
| There to mold in muddy weather;
| Stink and stink in old Chicago
| Dirt and mud become him better
u, A c.